Charles Barkley makes for an interesting interview

[grysar]

There's a TNR interview with him (probably subscriber only).

I tend to agree with him on immigration:

"Illegal immigration to me is the easiest thing in the world to fix.. All they have to do is penalize the people they work for. You should get penalized. It's all poor people who argue over illegal immigration.They want poor people to--I call it divide and conquer... A lot of these politicians say things like"We've got to stop all these illegal immigrants." I am like, "That is so easy to stop." They are not working for other immigrants."

I'll have to check out his sports show at some point when it's covering something of interest to me.

Comments

[insheepsclothng.livejournal.com]

I think immigration is the one and only thing I agree with Bush about - do a guest worker thing to make it easier for people to work here legally and create a path to citizenship for the ones that are already here.

And after that, yeah, crack down on the businesses - if our agriculture and construction industries can't exist without illegal workers, either the law or the industry has got to change, and it won't without pain being applied.

[lampbane.livejournal.com]

Lou Dobbs says pretty much the same thing - the people who employ them are the ones creating the problem.

I really hate the immigration debate because I feel it's too polarized - that it's been set up that if you're against illegal immigration, you're against immigrants in general. Which isn't true - it's the "illegal" part that many people have a problem with.